Financial Alliance for Women’s Post

Yes please, more of this thank you! 💰💰💰 "In a 2018 study of more than 350 startups conducted by Mass Challenge and Boston Consulting Group, businesses founded by women yielded higher revenue—more than two times as much per dollar invested—than those founded by men. Morgan Stanley calculates that $4.4 trillion are lost in missed revenue for women- and minority-owned business enterprises. In addition to generating higher returns, female founders have proven to be more capital efficient and performance driven, yielding multiple, positive bottom lines over time. The numbers indisputably demonstrate that investing in women is a good business decision." (Source: Forbes article: https://lnkd.in/gQ6sv_js)

🚨Shocking Stat: In 2022, a mere 2.1% of VC funds were allocated to women-founded companies. It's time to challenge this narrative and create a new norm! Join Our Mission: Together, we aim to dismantle the barriers of inequity in venture capital. Our goal? Channel funding into women-led VC firms and unlock untapped opportunities for women entrepreneurs. Be a part of this monumental shift. At The New Table, your voice, investment, and influence can drive real change. Claim your seat now and be among the women rewriting history. https://lnkd.in/g5KEpjzw Sandra Lopez #TheNewTable #HowWomenInvest #HowWomenLead #WomenInVenture #WomenVentureCapital #WomenCEOs #WomanCEO #Investment #Venture #InvestInWomen

This needs far more nuanced conversations. Yes, women receive less #VC funding. Also, the types of startups and industries where you find women founders is different: you find more men in #deeptech, with higher valuations, and more women in #edtech or #socialentrepreneurship, with lower valuations and higher failure rates. The issue may be then to encourage female founders to diversify their interests and/or support start ups with a social mission to find successful business models. #Venturecapital are capitalists and pragmatists, not idealists, and will look at #ROI and probability of a successful exit within a short time frame. There is some evidence that women VCs, perhaps because under more scrutiny with less leeway for failure, are less risk tolerant and make safer bets. Those safer bets for their own portfolios performance may then have fewer female founders. Supporting #femalefounders is important. We need to be careful when we attribute causation to gender alone when there are many more factors at play. Personally, as a #femalefounder, I find it hard to find another woman my age who has the financial risk tolerance, when she is focused on sending her kids to college or who is able to put in the obsessive long hours that cut into her family time spent on kids, aging parents, spouse/partner. Being in full time grad school and launching a venture, I do work pretty 24/7, so my work pace does not fit those seeking a high degree of “”work-life balance.” I have found that younger women with no kids often are more interested to found a start up in #fertility or #maternalhealth. Founders do need to work on what ignores their passion. So I end up surrounded by single and or child-free men in their 20s to early 30s who work with me in #FemTech. 🤷🏻♀️ The conversation needs to be less about gender and more about risk, risk mitigation, risk tolerance, business models. These are the criteria that determine funding decisions. Yes, there is also #bias. There also are concrete factors that matter.

🚨Shocking Stat: In 2022, a mere 2.1% of VC funds were allocated to women-founded companies. It's time to challenge this narrative and create a new norm! Join Our Mission: Together, we aim to dismantle the barriers of inequity in venture capital. Our goal? Channel funding into women-led VC firms and unlock untapped opportunities for women entrepreneurs. Be a part of this monumental shift. At The New Table, your voice, investment, and influence can drive real change. Claim your seat now and be among the women rewriting history. https://lnkd.in/g5KEpjzw Sandra Lopez #TheNewTable #HowWomenInvest #HowWomenLead #WomenInVenture #WomenVentureCapital #WomenCEOs #WomanCEO #Investment #Venture #InvestInWomen

As a female CEO of an integrated investment firm that is women-led and owned, these latest figures are shocking and saddening. Halfway through 2024, funding for startups founded by women is down sharply compared to recent years. This female founders dashboard shows that startups with at least one female founder garnered $15.4 billion across 1,487 deals through the first six months of 2024. This is the lowest amount of capital raised in H1 since 2020. These numbers make evident the persistent challenges that female founders face in securing venture capital. I am committed to changing this narrative. Our focus on impact and philanthropy, coupled with our mission to empower women in investment and wealth, drives us to actively support and uplift female entrepreneurs. It's time for the investment community to recognize the value and potential that female-founded startups bring to the table. 🙋♀️ #WomenInBusiness #FemaleFounders #Investment #VentureCapital #WomenEmpowerment #Avestix #AVXI

🚀 Calling all aspiring investors! 🚀 Are you curious about #venturecapital but don't know where to start? Join us for our "VC Primer: Women Investing in Women" session this Wednesday (September 18th) at 10:00 AM/12 PM CT. Our General Partners, Sara Brand, Ph.D. and Kerry Rupp, will demystify the VC world and explore the power of women investing in women. In this session, we'll talk about: - The current landscape of #femaleled startups - Why #diversity in who writes a check matters - How the VCs make money - What becoming a limited partner in a VC fund means This primer is designed to empower women to make informed decisions in VC and support the growth of female entrepreneurship. Whether you're considering becoming an LP or just want to understand the VC ecosystem better, this session is for you! Can't make it live? No problem! Register anyway, and we'll send you the recording. 🔗 Register here:https://bit.ly/3ZrdeeE We hope to see you there as we work together to change the face of venture capital! #WomenInVC #VentureCapital #InvestingInWomen #FemaleFounders #DiversityInTech

📢 When it comes to access to funding a gender gap exists in access to finance and support, particularly for women entrepreneurs, and this can hinder their growth and innovation potential. According to recent reports, female founders do not always have access to professional or informal networks that connect to potential investors; may lack confidence or financial literacy in pitching or negotiating terms for funding, it could be that some financial products are not always suitable for women founder businesses [pwc.com]. Some of the key factors to consider that impact success for female founded organizations: 🚀 Building an ecosystem where investors can back the next generation of founders 🚀 Having a diverse team to support growth 🚀 Starting small and growing from there 🚀 Understanding what KPIs you need to hit to raise money 🚀 Knowing the financial models and how you present your technology to investors 🚀 Women tend to build start-ups that focus on problems facing real-world issues such as sustainability, the future of work, access to health or finance. “We believe [diverse and female led organizations] will have stronger societal impact and change the world for the better..making much more meaningful businesses" [ft.com] https://lnkd.in/eZjMA63t #ft #funding #ai #tech #entrepreneursuccess #femalefounders

For my Keynote at the Wellth Summit, I shared some alarming statistics about the Funding Gap: 💥 All-male teams received 85% of VC funding last year out of $1.3Trillion 💥women only got 2% 💥women of colour 0.1% I made the room laugh a lot… I think because sometimes all there is to do is laugh and take steps to change it. My call to action is to have more women involved in the investing decisions, whether that’s through angel investing, VC or as an ecosystem partner. Have a listen and enjoy! #fundinggap #venturecapital #womenentrepreneurs #womenandwealth #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth

We did it! 🙌 An amazing group of women committed to a healthy - and diverse - startup ecosystem came together to force the government to back down on its recent implemented change to raise angel investor thresholds. It was a move that had the effect of excluding thousands of women and people of colour from early stage angel investing. There are so many lessons learned from this exercise: 1️⃣ A lack of diversity in decision-making and influencing leads to unintended consequences for populations that aren't well represented 2️⃣ It's not all about women - diversity leads to better outcomes for all 3️⃣ Women are not a minority 4️⃣ When we come together, we are a force to be reckoned with 5️⃣ There is A LOT more change we need to see in early stage funding for women and people of colour. For me, this is just the beginning. LFG! 🙌 A huge thanks to all the amazing people (women & men) who really did make this happen. (I was just a signature!) #investher